Early Day Motion·EDM 719

CONDUCT OF PRIVY COUNSELLORS

1 March 20045 Signatures

Motion Text

Line 1, leave out from 'government' to end add 'that it represents a secretive part of the constitution which is unaccountable and enables a small group of privy counsellors to make undemocratic decisions, perhaps of enormous consequence; and believes that in view of this unsatisfactory nature of the Privy Council, which should really be abolished, the current privy counsellors should not be deemed to be bound by hidebound and antiquated rules seeking to govern their conduct.'